Join the experts at Bolton Museum for a very special Egypt study day. All About Mummification will give guests hand-on experience with ancient Egyptian artefacts, lead by knowledgable curators and partners of Bolton’s Egyptology.
The collection is the largest of its kind in a local authority museum in the UK, where the famous ‘Unknown Man’ mummy is displayed. With burial textiles, featuring the work of the University of York’s Mummy Research Group, co-founders of the group, Professor Joann Fletcher and Dr Stephen Buckley, will be providing talks and workshops throughout the day.
This research group has studied aspects of the Bolton Egypt collection for over 35 years, making numerous discoveries, including the world’s oldest evidence for Egyptian mummification – based on the analysis of textiles in Bolton’s collection and the likely royal lineage of the ‘Unknown Man’, a mummified body housed within the Thutmose III burial chamber gallery.
The Study Day will conclude with after-hours wine, nibbles, and chats with the experts in the Bolton’s Egypt galleries. To book your tickets before they sell out, head to the Bolton Museum Shop or call 01204 332211.
You can also book tickets for just a single lecture to see Professor Joann Fletcher’s talk on ‘The History of Mummification’ here.